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Hold Anything
Cartoon
The film features Bosko working on a construction site with a goat and several small mice (all of which bear a strong resemblance to Mickey Mouse; Harman and Ising had worked with Walt Disney for several years before joining Warner Bros.).
After several minutes of relatively uneventful working (marked mainly by a song and dance sequence in which one of the mice is temporarily decapitated), Bosko spots his girlfriend, Honey, working in a nearby office building.
After some brief flirtation, Bosko jumps down into Honey's office, pulls out a piece of sheet music, places it in Honey's typewriter, and begins playing the typewriter like a piano (Bosko types the words "Don't Hold Everything" before launching into the song).
Meanwhile, back at the construction site, the goat eats a piece of a steam-powered machine and begins to float upward. Bosko reaches out the window and begins playing the goat like a calliope.
The goat begins to float away, and as Bosko hangs on for his life, he accidentally grabs onto a set of udders and gets sprayed with milk, distracting him enough to lose his grip and fall onto a set of bricks.
Bosko inexplicably divides into six miniature Boskos and begins playing the bricks as a xylophone before he reforms to his usual self and the cartoon irises out. (Wikipedia)
Movie Info
Directed by: Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising
Produced by: Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, Leon Schlesinger (associate producer)
Starring: Bernard B. Brown, Rochelle Hudson (both uncredited)
Music by: Frank Marsales
Animation by: Isadore Freleng, Norm Blackburn
Color process: Black and White
Production company: Harman-Ising Productions
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date: October 1930
Running time: 6 minutes
Language: English
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